A black-and-white photograph of a young girl carrying a pail between a train and some clapboard buildings.

Daughter of Unemployed Coal Miner Carrying Home a Can of Kerosene. Company Housing, Scotts Run, W. Va.

Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990)

Date

1938, printed 1978
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 8 5/16 x 11 3/16 in.
Sheet: 10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.
Inscriptions

Sheet recto:
l.r. signed in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott
Verso:
u.r. in graphite: ST
u.l. to u.r. in graphite: Daughter of unemployed coal miner carrying home a can \ of Kerosene. Company housing, Scotts Run, W. Va. \ Photographed for FSA 1938 \ Printed by MPW 1978 \ Selenium toned, MPW 1978
c. upsidedown in graphite: 30180 M2
l.r. signed: Marion Post Wolcott
l.r. in graphite: ? ICP 71A
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Dr. John Wolcott, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Accession Number

P1983.35.10
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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